TOW #9-Visual/Video-"I Was Engaged When I Was Five"

Source: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/culture-places-news/kakenya-ntaiya-vin/

      This video addresses the recent conditions of young girls in Kenya. They would be engaged at a very young age, and married a few years later. From the time they could walk, they performed tasks such as making food, gathering water, taking care of other sibling, and generally everything that would prepare them for motherhood. Most girls would be married by the age of 15. In Kenya, if a girl did not go through the ritual of physical mutilation, she and her family would face a "stigma" in society. This is a problem in many third-world, and even more-advanced nations: the arranged marriages, virtual-slavery of the girls, and the physical "mutilation" that girls have to go through in certain cultures. 
      The primary speaker is Kakenya Ntaiya, who was selected to be a child bride herself. She relates the story of conditions for girls in Kenya, using personal recollections and visual aids to bring attention to the harsh conditions for women in her native country.
      Ntaiya's personal recollections in the video establish her appeal to ethos. By showing that she herself knows the reality of things in Kenya, she is recognized as a primary source/reliable source of information. The video itself gains an appeal to ethos in being released in on a distinguished website known by many: National Geographic.  Her personal recollections also help her to gain sympathy from the viewers, and by extent, for the girls in Kenya (her appeal to the pathos of her audience). The wording Ntaiya uses in her recollections hit the viewer hard with what Kenyan girls have to go through. 
      The visuals selected for use in this video are chosen to show the normal, everyday occurrences in a Kenyan village. They give the viewers a sense of reality when watching the video. The viewers can almost imagine themselves as one of the girls depicted in the visuals, and perhaps gain a better understanding of the harshness of their lives. Since the girls in the video are so young, most viewers would immediately get a sense of protectiveness, and be outraged at some of the things they hear are being done to these little girls. Shocking news, like mutilations being done to little girls, gains the attention of the world very quickly. 
      The speaker very effectively achieved her purpose in bringing attention to the plight of girls in Kenya. Her own voice, coupled with the scenes of everyday life in the country, create a fuller picture of what those girls have to go through. The shock of hearing what girls as young as 5 have to go through, no doubt grabs the attention of many viewers.